The other day the NFL released the schedule for the upcoming season and fans started making plans. The NFL hasn’t been my thing in decades, but I completely understand why fans travel to see their team play. For some division games, it can be as simple as a day trip and for fans living in cold climates, trips to warm weather cities are obvious inducements. However, what happens when your team stinks and loses badly?

The flight or drive from Chicago to Minneapolis is attractive if not easy as Cub fans found out this weekend. However, the last two games were horrible in every sense. I heard someone sympathizing with the Cub fans that were at Target yesterday and had to endure an 80-minute rain delay before watching an 11-1 loss.

I guess if you are with family or friends, it’s not that bad?? At what point do you leave since it’s an afternoon game and you have a night in a strange city? If you drove to Minnesota, what time did you leave today’s drubbing?

Maybe I’m the fool for traveling to see anyone play instead of only the Cubs. The last time I traveled with the Cubs, I was rewarded with a rainout in STL. It kind of spoiled the trip that they made up the game on the day I had to leave town.

Inexplicably when I drove to Minneapolis in 2018, it was coincidental that the Angels were in town. I was looking forward to seeing Mike Trout, but he wasn’t the reason I went when I did. Hotel prices and availability and two day games were the real reasons. Had I been traveling with someone, I might have left the ballpark at some point during the 4-hour rain delay at the Saturday game. It was so bad that Baseball Reference neglected to mention the actual start time was 1:10 and not the 5:10 delay start or even a delay. Their “weather” was overcast and not 4-hour delay. Ha! Somehow, I wouldn’t have wanted to travel that many miles just to see the Cubs get their heads handed to them. I’ve done that enough times without such an investment. All of the Cub fans that made the trip to see that deserve dinner on the Cubs.